Shown left is ‘Un Baleinobus’, one of a rare series of 78 chromlitho illustrations featured on eight uncut stock cards or sheets that sold for £1000 as part of a Hansons (20% buyer’s premium) sale of July 31.
The work of a number of different artists and exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, these ‘En l’An 2000’ cards were originally intended for inclusion in cigarette or cigar boxes and perhaps for use as postcards, but due to financial difficulties were never distributed.